{"id":6477,"global_id":"www.thevillagetrip.com?id=6477","global_id_lineage":["www.thevillagetrip.com?id=6477"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2022-08-18 06:05:08","date_utc":"2022-08-18 10:05:08","modified":"2022-09-10 06:22:22","modified_utc":"2022-09-10 10:22:22","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/wonderful-town-walking-tour\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/6477","title":"Wonderful Town<\/em>: Walking Tour with Jamie Bernstein","description":"
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New starting point: Meet at Northwest corner of 14th St and 7th Ave.
\nPlease assemble at 3:45pm.<\/h4>\n

Writes Jamie: \u201cCome along!” booms the tour guide in <\/em>Wonderful Town‘s opening number, \u201cChristopher Street.\u201d This 1953 Broadway show \u2013 book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and score by my Dad, Leonard Bernstein \u2013 is a love letter to the ultra-bohemian good old days of Greenwich Village, as seen through the adventures of two sisters from Ohio. All these years later, I’m inviting you to \u201ccome along!\u201d \u2013 as I retrace some of the Village spots that appear in the show, plus a few additional relevant points of interest.<\/em><\/p>\n

Based on the 1940 play My Sister Eileen<\/em> by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, and The Short Stories<\/em> of Ruth McKenney, Wonderful Town<\/em> was Leonard Bernstein\u2019s second salute to New York City. As with the first, On the Town<\/em>, Bernstein teamed up with lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Villagers who as cabaret artists had been a fixture at the nearby Village Vanguard. Rosalind Russell, who had earlier starred in the 1952 film of My Sister Eileen<\/em>, was cast again for the Broadway version as Ruth, and a 25-year-old Juilliard graduate and future TV star, Edie Adams, as the ingenue younger sister, Eileen. Bernstein wrote songs \u2013 including \u201cOne Hundred Ways to Lose a Man\u201d and \u201cSwing\u201d \u2013 that played to Russell\u2019s strengths as a character actress not known for her vocal prowess. The original Broadway production won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical.<\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way, Jamie recalls that her father wrote the musical to cover the cost of her baby clothes and diapers!<\/p>\n

The tour is followed by a very special Cocktails and Cabaret with Janis Siegel and Friends<\/a>.<\/h4>\n